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Overview

Gregory F. Grether is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, Grether focuses heavily on subfields related to Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work covers a range of topics including Plant and animal studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Genetic diversity and population structure, and Avian ecology and behavior.

Recent scientific papers authored or coauthored by Grether include:

  • "Competition and hybridization drive interspecific territoriality in birds" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds" (2020) in Evolution
  • "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of interference competition" (2022) in Ecology Letters
  • "Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa" (2023) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata)" (2022) in Diversity

Frequent co-authors of Grether include:

  • Jonathan P. Drury
  • Debra M. Shier
  • Yesenia Margarita Vega-Sánchez
  • Madeline C. Cowen
  • Rachel Y. Chock

Grether's work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, notably:

  • Ecology Letters
  • Journal of Heredity
  • The American Biology Teacher
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • A possible non-sexual origin of mate preference: are male guppies mimicking fruit?

    F. Helen Rodd;Kimberly A. Hughes;Gregory F. Grether;Colette T. Baril

  • The role of interspecific interference competition in character displacement and the evolution of competitor recognition.

    Gregory F. Grether;Neil Losin;Christopher N. Anderson;Kenichi Okamoto

  • Carotenoid limitation of sexual coloration along an environmental gradient in guppies

    Gregory F. Grether;Jocelyn Hudon;David F. Millie

  • Individual colour patches as multicomponent signals.

    Gregory F. Grether;Gita R. Kolluru;Karen Nersissian

  • RAIN FOREST CANOPY COVER, RESOURCE AVAILABILITY, AND LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION IN GUPPIES

    Gregory F. Grether;David F. Millie;Michael J. Bryant;David N. Reznick

  • Environmental Change, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Genetic Compensation

    Gregory F. Grether

  • Extensive population genetic structure in the giraffe

    David M. Brown;Rick A. Brenneman;Klaus Peter Koepfli;John P. Pollinger

  • CAROTENOID LIMITATION AND MATE PREFERENCE EVOLUTION: A TEST OF THE INDICATOR HYPOTHESIS IN GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA)

    Gregory F. Grether

  • Carotenoid scarcity, synthetic pteridine pigments and the evolution of sexual coloration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

    Gregory F. Grether;Jocelyn Hudon;John A. Endler

  • INTRASEXUAL COMPETITION ALONE FAVORS A SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC ORNAMENT IN THE RUBYSPOT DAMSELFLY HETAERINA AMERICANA.

    Gregory F. Grether

  • The evolutionary consequences of interspecific aggression

    Gregory F. Grether;Christopher N. Anderson;Jonathan P. Drury;Alexander N. G. Kirschel;Alexander N. G. Kirschel

  • Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

    Gregory F. Grether;Kathryn S. Peiman;Joseph A. Tobias;Beren W. Robinson

  • SEXUAL SELECTION AND SURVIVAL SELECTION ON WING COLORATION AND BODY SIZE IN THE RUBYSPOT DAMSELFLY HETAERINA AMERICANA.

    Gregory F. Grether

  • Sex-specific effects of carotenoid intake on the immunological response to allografts in guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

    Gregory F. Grether;Shinji Kasahara;Gita R. Kolluru;Edwin L. Cooper

  • Interspecific aggression and character displacement of competitor recognition in Hetaerina damselflies

    Christopher N. Anderson;Gregory F. Grether

  • Association among wild orang-utans: sociality, passive aggregations or chance?

    John C. Mitani;Gregory F. Grether;Peter S. Rodman;Dolly Priatna

  • Carotenoid availability affects the development of a colour-based mate preference and the sensory bias to which it is genetically linked

    Gregory F Grether;Gita R Kolluru;F. Helen Rodd;Jennifer de la Cerda

  • The effects of resource availability on alternative mating tactics in guppies ( Poecilia reticulata )

    Gita R. Kolluru;Gregory F. Grether

  • The effects of carotenoid and food availability on resistance to a naturally occurring parasite (Gyrodactylus turnbulli) in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

    Gita R. Kolluru;Gregory F. Grether;Sandra H. South;Eric Dunlop

  • Food availability and parasite infection influence mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

    Gita R. Kolluru;Gregory F. Grether;Eric Dunlop;Sandra H. South

  • COUNTERGRADIENT VARIATION IN THE SEXUAL COLORATION OF GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA): DROSOPTERIN SYNTHESIS BALANCES

    Carotenoid Availability;Gregory F. Grether;Molly E. Cummings;Jocelyn Hudon

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Carbone
Chris Carbone Zoological Society of London
Michael G. L. Mills
Michael G. L. Mills University of Oxford
Darrell J. Kemp
Darrell J. Kemp Macquarie University
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Blaire Van Valkenburgh University of California, Los Angeles
Paul J. Funston
Paul J. Funston Panthera Corporation
F. Helen Rodd
F. Helen Rodd University of Toronto
David N. Reznick
David N. Reznick University of California, Riverside
John A. Endler
John A. Endler Deakin University
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology

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